Fiction Stories: Dairy of a campus episode 18

EPISODE 18

My mind couldn’t help but pick the former. I

ran like a jambite who’s late for exam just to

catch up with them. I called her attention but

she intentionally deafened up. I moved closer

and tapped her on the shoulder.

“Kofo, are you deaf?” I angrily said. “Don’t you

know I was calling you?”

“Young man, are you mad?” The unknown guy

defended her. “Why shout on her?”

“David, please leave him alone.” Kofo said,

“Let’s hear what he has to say. Am listening,

talk.”

I shook my head in pity and said, “Kofo, you

have the guts to talk to me like this?”

“How did I talk to you?” Kofo smirked and

said. “Guess you have lost your manners and

your very sense of reasoning. You slapped me

yesterday and you’re here telling me

nonsense. Perhaps, I thought someone gave

you a message when you called yesterday. If

you want a reminder, you will sure get one

now.”

“Kofo, calm down please.” David said, turning

her body to face him, just to calm her down.

“David, please leave me alone. Let me give

him the word he needs to hear.” She furiously

said, pushing herself away from him.

I stood like a pole, folded my arms staring at

Kofo and her assistant boyfriend, David. If

you’re so hungry to hear embarrassing words,

then hurt a girl and act innocent thereafter. I

was not as angry with Kofo with the way my

anger indicated fire for David.

I’m not as handsome as Mr Nigeria but I am

also not as ugly as David. I still wonder why

Kofo would substitute me for ‘lepacious’

David. If truly Kofo has feelings for David, then

it’s obviously not for his physical look but

something concealed. I patiently stood still

like a figurine to hear all she has to say.

“You slapped me with your dirty hands. I am

not as cheap as you think.” She yelled. “Oh Oh

Oh I get, because I never made you pass

through hell was what gave you the effrontery

to think I am cheap. You slapped me. Banji,

you slapped me.”

David looked at Kofo, who held her cheek to

portray her words and said, “Kofo, he slapped

you?”

“Yes. He slapped me.”

“You mean this standing here slapped you?”

David asked with a furious tone, emphasizing

on each word.

“Yes O. He slapped my face yesterday night.

Yesterday night O.”

David shifted his focus to me while I fixed my

eyes on him. He paused for some seconds, I

still remained calm.

He moved closer to me and said, “You must

be a fool to slap her.”

“David, No don’t go there.” Kofo defended. “I

never said you should abuse him.”

“No No Kofo let me talk. He’s a fool to have

slapped you.” He yelled again. “No cool guy

slaps a lady.”

“You don’t have the right to call him a fool,

not even because of me.”

I smile and walked away while they both were

talking. I really don’t blame David, he is trying

to be her super man. I was so pained and

embarrassed. My head was bowed while

walking back to the security office.

“Banji! Banji!” Kofo shouted my name to gain

my attention but I didn’t look back. “MB! MB!

MB!”

She bellowed my pet name, MB which means

‘My Bobo’, but my ears where already stuck

with the whole heap of abuses. I walked faster

to signal her not to try chasing after me. Kofo

is another issue, let me shift to a more

pressing issue, the murder case, I said to

myself.

I got to the security office to see Mr

Okanlawon in front of the entrance. I moved

closer to him to restate my request.

“Erm Sir!” I said raising my index finger to

explain the reason for my temporary exit.

“What?! Just go away, the CSO is not on

seat.” He quickly interrupted to dismiss me.

“Sir Please. Am sorry for leaving without

telling you.” I pleaded.

“You are not serious.” He said. “What do you

want me to tell my Oga now? After he don

commot to see you the first time.”

“Sir, am so sorry.”

“I can’t help you today agian o. Maybe you go

come back tomorrow.”

“Erm Sir! I know about the death.” I was

saying when Mr Okanlawon interrupted.

“You killed the student, abi?” He said with his

eyes bulging out.

His bulging eyes alone got me so scared like

a horror scene. I took to my heels as fast as I

could when Mr Okanlawon went in to raise a

false alarm about me killing the victims. I

immediately experienced how the computer

works in the real sense because I was running

and thinking at the same time; I was

multitasking. I was thinking of Buhari’s

advice: Free advice Banji, don’t talk about the

case o, else you will implicate yourself. It’s a

murder case and the school won’t take it

trivially.

I kept running like a man who has his

important documents in a burning building. I

instantly began to pray. I intensified the heat

of my prayer when I heard the siren of the

police van all around. It all looked like a film I

watched recently, forty four minutes; a

criminal being chased by the police.

I knew it was over when I heard loudly the

siren of the police. It was so loud to deny how

close they already were to me. I looked behind

to confirm if my mind and my ears were still

on good terms, horrifically they still were.

TO BE CONTINUED.